The Ceiling Fan Saga (revisited)

Next in my series of "Blast from the Past"

The Ceiling Fan Saga

originally published on October 12, 2006

In our very first house each of the bedrooms had lights with ceiling fans. They were great! So when we bought this house I requested that we put ceiling fans in the upstairs bedrooms. Scott got right on the one for our bedroom and with the help of his handy brother Roy, got it all installed. It was marvelous. (Apparantly it was not an easy task to undertake and he hasn't jumped on getting the one in Megan's room installed) A word to the wise, a celing fan chain thingy will break when a 5 year old tries to hang from it. See I put her in time out in our room and when she came out she was holding the chain in her hand. Unfortunately it had broken from inside the fan which would require it to be taken apart and fixed.

Said 5 year old is now 6 and after nearly a year of not working the fan is running once again. Only after on a HOT early summer evening Scott decided to be all handy like and fix it. This was like around 10:00 pm mind you and I was exhausted, hot and ready to climb into bed. But being the loving, kind and supportive wife I am (ha ha) I agreed to help. Helping meant to hold the very hot part of the ceiling fan with the lights that was hanging precariously from the ceiling while he attempted to fix it.

An hour later the thing is sorta fixed, and I have stripped down to my under clothing because I had sweat dripping from standing on the bed while holding a VERY hot light. By sorta fixed I mean that the fan worked, except for the fact that it is always on - on high. A few days later I mentioned the ceiling fan ordeal to my SIL and she said that her brother had a ceiling fan in their living room that just quit working after running for EIGHT years straight. I made the mistake of telling Scott and he no longer felt the urgency to fix it right away. Considering that we had the hottest summer in South Dakota history I was fine with that. Now that our temperatures are below freezing in the evenings I no longer care to have a ceiling fan running ALL-NIGHT-LONG.
Perhaps it will be fixed in time for next summer when we will just leave it on all the time again.

July 2008 ceiling fan update -

Our ceiling fan still only sorta works. Now it only works on the lowest setting, but at least it isn't on all the time. Someday maybe it will work properly.....or not. ;)